In March this year, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) called for a global moratorium on nanotechnology. The IUF cited concerns regarding the health and environmental risks...
Reprinted from “Clean Food Organic”. Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of...
Friends of the Earth Australia has joined an international coalition of 20 public interest organisations in rejecting proposals to manage the risks associated with nanotechnology by using voluntary measures. The coalition has released an open letter (download below)...
In a world first, citing concerns about nanotechnology’s health risks and social impacts, the International Union of Food, Farm and Hotel Workers (IUF) has called for a moratorium on the use of nanotechnology in food and agriculture (see full text of resolution...
Is nanotechnology a ground breaking powerful new technology? Or is it neither new nor really a singular technology? We are told that it heralds “the next industrial revolution”. Will its effects be revolutionary? Or familiar and incremental? Is...